By: Lars
The departure from Leigh Creek wasn't all that bad because my whole family and I were sssoooo excited for Yellowstone! The drive was not that bad and once we entered Yellowstone and saw our fist thermal pool, we all got super excited! That night we went on a boardwalk hike getting a feel for what Yellowstone was like. The day after that, we did more boardwalk hikes but these hikes were different because that day we saw geysers. If you don't know this yet, the reason there are so many geysers in Yellowstone is because lava is closer to the surface of the Earth so every pool of water there is extremely hot from the heat from the lava. This is what makes thermal pools bubble. But geysers shoot up super high because the lava is rising shooting the water sky high! The most popular geyser is called Old Faithful. The reason it got its name is because it's a very old geyser and it is very predictable so the time until it goes off can be estimated and will vary only in a 20 minute range. Old Faithful was the fist geyser I had ever seen and it was astonishing how high the water went! We saw some other geysers and headed to camp for a nice fire while Ilsa played the guitar. That next day, we went on a hike stopping along the way to see amazing waterfalls fall into the Yellowstone river. The hike was like any other hike we do but at the turn around point, we got to Hellroaring creek (the name of the hike) and we dipped our feet in. It was very refreshing! Sadly, the next day we had to pack up and leave Yellowstone heading towards Montana. In Montana we made a stop at Missoula where we met our old friends Darin and Jenn and their 4-year old girl Kaia and their 2-year old girl Makenna. We spent 1 night there with the family that once had a house in Seward, Alaska (that's how we knew them). After the nice reunion, we were headed to Glacier National Park.
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| Thermal pools bring out the microbiologist in Ray |
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| Great campsite on Yellowstone Lake |
By: Ilsa R.
As you know, we recently visited Yellowstone, which Lars wrote about in this post. Since reading the same thing is totally boring, I have decided to write about the things he hasn’t written about yet. So, after Yellowstone, we did a 7-hour drive (very painful) to visit our friends in Missoula, Jen and Darin and their two daughters, Kaia and Makenna. Kaia was four years old and Makenna was two. They were both SOOOO adorable! We stayed with them for one night and in the morning we visited the Saturday market and went out for breakfast. It was hard to leave them but I think I might go to college there!
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| Lower Yellowstone Falls |
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| Yellowstone River |
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Even for Alaskans, seeing a bear this close was fun!
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| Ilsa with Makenna in Missoula |
So happy you were able to see Yellowstone! Grandpa and I had
ReplyDeleteour Honeymoon there after we got married in 1969!! We stayed at Old Faithful Lodge. We were still both in college so money was tight. We couldn't afford to eat at the Lodge restaurantl, so we put sandwich meats and had bread, mustard, and mayo to make picnic lunches! We also had fruit. The maid would add ice to the sink where we kept the cold foods when she cleaned our room! Dinner was Spaghetteo's [yucky to us now!!! lol] We also had a VW Beatle Bug Grandpa had to
push while I popped the clutch to get it started! Funny memories!!
Have fun in Canada [which I believe you are probably in by now] !!!
Thanks Lars for all the info - we are learning a lot from your blog posts. We really enjoyed the info about the geysers.
ReplyDeleteIlsa - we love your insightful and thoughtful posts - gives us a taste of what traveling with the Robinsons is like. :)